Sport for Business’ Coverage of Euro 2016 is supported by Official Tournament and FAI Partner Continental Tyres
The result on the pitch might have been dreadful but it was another winner for RTÉ who celebrated the second biggest TV audience of the year with an average of 925,000 viewers tuning in on Saturday afternoon.
The audience peaked at 1,032,800 viewers in the moments before Belgium’s second goal.
While the overall audiences were down slightly on Ireland’s draw against Sweden last Monday’s the share was up with an average of 78.5%.
These figures do not include out of home viewing on Saturday with RTÉ2 coming to the rescue of Ireland fans at the Body&Soul festival in Westmeath giving close to 3000 festival goers the opportunity to watch the match live.
Over 2 million viewers tuned in over the weekend to watch RTÉ’s Euros coverage on RTÉ2 across Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.
Additionally there were 92,000 live streams for the Republic of Ireland v Belgium game on RTÉ Player.
To date there has been a total of 845,800 streams of RTÉ’s UEFA Euro 2016 coverage on RTÉ Player and 3.3 million page impressions of Euro 2016 content across RTÉ.ie and RTÉ News Now App.
The Republic of Ireland’s crucial game against Italy will be broadcast on Wednesday evening exclusively live on RTÉ2 television, streamed live on RTÉ Player and will have full live commentary on RTÉ Radio 1.
Sport for Business’ Coverage of Euro 2016 is supported by Official Tournament and FAI Partner Continental Tyres
